Catalogue description Exchequer of Pleas: Depositions

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Reference: E 20
Title: Exchequer of Pleas: Depositions
Description:

These are the depositions of witnesses taken before a master or other person by order of court, or by commission abroad, under the acts of 1831 and 1854, including also some examinations of judgement debtors under the latter act. Many exhibits are included with the depositions by commission.

Date: 1853-1879
Related material:

Further depositions in suits in the Exchequer Division of the High Court of Justice, 1875-1880, are in J 16

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 17 bundle(s)
Unpublished finding aids:

There is a contemporary index to examinations and commissions from January 1868 to April 1880 (IND 1/6631). An index of suits, 1853-1867, is also available.

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